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The bar singer, the K-pop veteran and the ‘railway track diva’: meet three Eurovision Asia 2026 hop… Taiki Naito wants Jonathan Di Bella next after Kongthoranee win Nvidia shares drop after hours amid reports of meeting over CEO Jensen Huang’s future UN secretary-general must be elected by year-end — Russian Foreign Ministry Cristiano Ronaldo faces reported dig in Joao Neves’ ‘real captain’ comment aimed at Bruno Fernandes… Netanyahu hits back at Trump’s Board of Peace over Gaza aid Father charged with attempted murder after baby survives being buried in crate Democrat Scott Colom wins the closest Senate race in the country The bar singer, the K-pop veteran and the ‘railway track diva’: meet three Eurovision Asia 2026 hop… Taiki Naito wants Jonathan Di Bella next after Kongthoranee win Nvidia shares drop after hours amid reports of meeting over CEO Jensen Huang’s future UN secretary-general must be elected by year-end — Russian Foreign Ministry Cristiano Ronaldo faces reported dig in Joao Neves’ ‘real captain’ comment aimed at Bruno Fernandes… Netanyahu hits back at Trump’s Board of Peace over Gaza aid Father charged with attempted murder after baby survives being buried in crate Democrat Scott Colom wins the closest Senate race in the country

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time

The original Sonos Ace headphones should have been a triumphant entry into a new product category. Instead, they were overshadowed by Sonos's disastrous app redesign. And while th…

Technology · Startups

Carrier filtering is blocking legitimate SMS. The operators getting through are doing three things differently

A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filt…

Technology · Startups

Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use

Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data cente…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple's smart home hub could arrive next month

Apple's smart home hub with a six-inch display may finally be ready to go.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

TeamViewer urges users to patch severe flaws “as soon as possible”

Remote access software company TeamViewer warned customers on Tuesday to immediately patch a set of high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its client and host software. [...]

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intel…

Technology · Startups

Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals

AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind o…

Technology · Startups

Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off

Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer…

Technology · Startups

Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi

Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-po…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for

BAG Ventures announces close of a $11.3M Fund I to invest in all things AI.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Samsung’s new SmartTag is smaller, longer-lasting, and works with iPhones

Samsung has announced its third-generation Bluetooth tracker, the Galaxy SmartTag 3. It combines a smaller design and improved battery life with a few new tracking and software fe…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Samsung gives its two-year-old Galaxy Tab S Plus an overhaul

Since the Galaxy Tab S10 line, Samsung has updated its flagship Ultra tablet annually, but alternates its regular and Plus variants. It means that this year's Galaxy Tab S12 serie…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3's special feature is being a pet activity monitor

Not only can it keep tabs on your furball's location, it can monitor their motion and sleep too.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Airbnb is adding a personalized map and other discovery tools

The rental service is getting more social and more AI.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: The apex Android tablet

Starting at $1,400, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra is super expensive. But that's the price you'll have to pay for the best Android tablet.

Technology · Cybersecurity

Know Your Enemy: Browser-Based Attack Techniques in 2026

Given that the browser is where business apps are accessed and used, it makes sense that attacks are happening there too. Most breaches today begin in a browser session. Often, th…

Technology · Startups

Apple will launch its smart home push on 13 October, Bloomberg reports

Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a ke…

Technology · Cybersecurity

AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub

AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said. Its researchers …

Technology · Startups

“AI, or SI, pardon me” will give you better healthcare than Elon Musk gets, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President …

Technology · Software & Apps

Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates

The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Bitget hacked via zero-day in third-party security products

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget revealed today that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week breached its systems after exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party security produ…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple’s ‘HomePad’ will reportedly launch on October 13th

Apple's long-rumored smart home hub will reportedly be revealed on October 13th. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the smart home device will be revealed alongside a new HomePo…

Technology · Cybersecurity

US-Focused CSuite Phishing Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions and Deploys RMM Tools for Remote Access

ANY.RUN researchers traced a US-focused CSuite phishing campaign across 351 sandbox analyses, with 51% of submissions coming from the United States. Technology, manufacturing, gov…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Apple Pay finally arrives in India on a limited basis

Apple Pay is now available in India, but it only supports cards by Axis Bank for now.